Add MS 89730

The album consists of a large number of sketches pasted into a volume with a red marbled cover and black leather spine and corners. The majority of the sketches depict scenes in New Guinea, as well as a large a number from Egypt and the Sudan, when Glanville accompanied Australian troops involved in the conflict.

The pictures are accompanied by extensive annotations, often with humorous content.

The sketches in order are titled by Glanville as follows: (Titles in square brackets are a simple description of the content.)

• view of port of Suez, Mar 84
• Ishmalia, Egypt where theguards were quartered during the Egyptian War, 11 Mar 84
• sketches in Lynn,Norfolk Jun 1884
• recollections of medical private practice, Kings Lynn, Jun1884
• Moorish pilgrims at prayer on board P&O Ancona, Aug 1884
• sketch takenat Port Said, Aug 1884, showing Orient SS Liguria
• a Gharry and Driver,Singapore, Sep 1884
• Sikhs (police) Singapore Sep 1884
• donkey riding at SuezAug 84
• on the Hoogley River, a native craft near Calcutta
• scraps from Chinese everyday life
• Chinese soldiers and convicts
• the fort at Woosung nearShanghai, Oct 1884
• [Chinese baby carrier]
• [shoes]
• [queue for a bath]
• [walkinground the ship]
• [sea sickness]
• [leisure activities on board]
• a globetrotter
• Indian snake charmers, Madras Nov 1883
• study of Arabs at Suez in Nov 1884
• Japanese singing girl playing on the Shamisen [on deck]
• Japanese travellersDec 1884
• Japanese Fencers
• Homeward bound – Mount Etna Nov 1884
• The Straitsof Messina
• the Rock and Town of Scylla
• Stromboli
• Hadendowa Arab Soldiermounted on war camel, May 1885
• shoeing horses of Australian artillery, SSAustralasia, Mar 1885
• Camel race at Handoub, Apr 29 1885
• sketches of NSWArtillery on the SS Australasian [fold out]
• Zereba at Handoub, 25 Apr 1885 [army camp, fold out]
• Coldstream Guards [clearing scrub], Soudan, Apr 1885
• No.1Zereba [camp]
• the Halt – march from Souakim to Handaub, Soudan 1885
• RomanCatholic service in camp, Souakim, Apr 1885
• [sketches of a camel]
• [sketch of atable and a camel]
• camp sketches, May 1885
• horses of 5^th Lancers,Soudan 1885
• canteen tent of 5^th Lancers, Soudan 1885
• 5^thLancers in camp, Soudan 1885

The sketches of New Guinea are entitled by Glanville as:

• Kerepunu village on S.E. coast of New Guinea, Sep 1885
• Doboor tree houses of Koiari District, 18 Sep 1885
• blue gowns at Port Moresby, Sep1885 [native women on station compelled to specific clothing]
• Koiari [son of a chief]
• HMSDart off South Cape of New Guinea
• study of aged leprous woman, Port Moresby,Sep 1885
• native canoe with females, Sep 14 1885
• study of native boy, Aroma, 5Oct 1885
• [village of Kerepuna, 1884]
• study of group of girls, Kerepuna, Sep1885;
• New Guinea warrior in review order;
• New Guinea Belle in gala dress [Kolkove,daughter of Chief Harova];
• Yarok, chief of Sogeri sees a large mirror for the first time, 12 Sep 1885;
• [loose sketch of ear piercings];

Most of second half of volume is blank, apart from a coupleof very rough sketches – many pages have been removed.